Subsidy buys off voters with their own money

The saddest thing about the impending $150 power bribe from the Albanese government is there will be plenty of voters who will not even realise they are being bought off with their own money.

GM Seabrook, Leasingham, SA

Accolades are due to Johannes Leak for his incredible skills in his weekend cartoon (“Bowen Buzzbox”, 22-23/3), which shows an EV with facial features redolent of our Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

Michael Asten, Hawthorn, Vic

Two things that Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers should understand. A subsidy is not a reduction in the cost of electricity. In fact it’s a panacea to use more power. And the only way to make housing less expensive is to increase the supply. Everything else is window dressing, if only there were windows to dress.

Alexander Haege, Tamarama, NSW

Two common products in my supermarket have risen by 73 per cent and 57 per cent over the past two years. Other shoppers have given similar price findings to the ACCC. It seems customers are not the only ones thoroughly hoodwinked by the two major grocers.

Susie Boswell, Port Macquarie, NSW

In the Machiavellian world of combating climate change, lower living standards and higher energy cost are simply the price of doing business.

Terry Walmsley, Benowa, Qld

Mike Cannon-Brookes made his fortune by thinking outside the square, but to suggest he can save the planet by purchasing a private jet seems a bit over the top.

Tim Trotter, Ascot, Qld

Churchill said: “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” Sound familiar?

Geoff Davey, St Lucia, Qld

Janet Albrechtsen is well equipped to critique Macquarie University, whose law school has instilled some bovine ideas in its curriculum (“Degrees now depend on woke ideology”, 22-23/3). Its students should not be graded for their ventriloquism, on their ability to mimic and satisfy any prevailing ideology, as indoctrinated by their teachers.

Mike Fogarty, Weston, ACT

In his take on the silly saga of the American tourist and the baby wombat, Steve Waterson demonstrates that, unlike our political leaders, his sense of both proportion and the ridiculous is in perfect working order (“Hands off our little Aussie wombattlers”, 22-23/3).

Terry Birchley, Bundaberg, Qld